Asian Dream Cup 2012

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Episode 97: part 2
May 21: continued directly from previous episode shoot.
Location: Posco building, Incheon.
Guests: Park Ji Sung, IU.
Race mission: Find the final race mission hidden under someone's nametag. Hints around the building point to who it is.
Find the Spy: Eliminate the spy by tearing off nametag. Spy can recruit one other person and must eliminate everyone else to win.
Comments: The money prizes in Thai baht were kinda red herrings as they have nothing to do with any missions in Thailand, aside from the money being donated there. I don't understand how Ji Hyo is "single". Maybe in Korea as long as you're not married, you're considered single? (correction from comments: the clue says or suggests "not married").

May 22, 23:
Location: Bangkok, Thailand.
Guests: Park Ji Sung; cameos: Jung Dae Sae, Rio Ferdinand (soccer players), Song Joong Ki; Jae Suk absent.
Episode mission: Survive the elimination rounds to participate in the Asian Dream Cup charity soccer friendly between Park Ji Sung & Friends vs. Thailand All-Star teams. Two Running Men will participate.
VJ arm-wrestling elimination round (Chatrium Hotel): Running Man members' VJs arm-wrestle to determine who is eliminated. Member of the losing VJ is eliminated.
Find the Item elimination round (Wang Lang market): Find the item, whose name is given in Thai, in the market and buy it. Last place is eliminated.
Retrieve the ball elimination round (Vachirabenjatas Park): Park Ji Sung kicks 3 signed soccer balls, the member who is unable to retrieve one is eliminated.
Red card nametag elimination round (Thunder Dome Football Park): The first person that Jung Dae Sae rips off both nametag and yellow card nametag is eliminated. The 2 survivors get to play in the Asian Dream Cup game.
Comments: The Asian Dream Cup was established by Park Ji Sung's JS Foundation to promote soccer and support youth soccer talent in Southeast Asia. This is the second Asian Dream Cup, the previous year was in Saigon, Vietnam. The "Friends" of the Park Ji Sung & Friends team include Park Ji Sung's pro soccer friends, but he taps the popularity of Hallyu stars to help promote the charity. Good man, supporting youth in Korea and Southeast Asia with what he knows and does best.
- LeeSsang's 8th album "Unplugged" was released on May 25, and several tracks are used as BGM in this and the previous episode, along with the usual LeeSsang songs used when Gary is on-screen. Which reminds me, IU also released her single "Spring of a Twenty Year Old" on May 11 and the track Every End of the Day was used as BGM in ep. 96.
- Song Joongki's connection to soccer was established in ep. 2, when it is mentioned pro soccer player Jung Sung Ryeol coached in Joongki's amateur soccer club.
- Confirmed: the Running Man crew have an opticopter (sometimes called an octocopter for its 8 propellers), seen flying overhead in the hotel segment right after Park Ji Sung enters, but only footage over the Chao Phraya (NB: another translation error, the Chao Phraya is a river, not a lake) and Vachirabenjatas Park is used.
- After shooting 100 episodes, the producers chose the Park Ji Sung episodes as among their top 7 favorite episodes.